Mike recently opened up about his breakthrough role as Wallace on The Wire and when his character got killed off the show.

“Each script that I got, I’d just be flipping through the pages to see if my name was in the back,” Michael told HuffPo. “It was like okay, now I can read it, because people were dropping like flies. Like nobody was safe on that show.”

He continued, “I got that dreadful knock on my trailer and [creator and writer] David Simon was like, ‘Look, I love you. Everybody loves you. But that’s why we gotta kill you.’ And yeah, Wallace was gone.”